[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR19.14]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 19--NOTICES, INSTRUCTIONS AND REPORTS TO WORKERS: INSPECTION AND INVESTIGATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 19.14  Presence of representatives of licensees and workers during inspections.

    (a) Each licensee shall afford to the Commission at all reasonable 
times opportunity to inspect materials, activities, facilities, 
premises, and records pursuant to the regulations in this chapter.
    (b) During an inspection, Commission inspectors may consult 
privately with workers as specified in Sec. 19.15. The licensee or 
licensee's representative may accompany Commission inspectors during 
other phrases of an inspection.
    (c) If, at the time of inspection, an individual has been authorized 
by the workers to represent them during Commission inspections, the 
licensee shall notify the inspectors of such authorization and shall 
give the workers' representative an opportunity to accompany the 
inspectors during the inspection of physical working conditions.
    (d) Each workers' representative shall be routinely engaged in 
licensed activities under control of the licensee and shall have 
received instructions as specified in Sec. 19.12.
    (e) Different representatives of licensees and workers may accompany 
the inspectors during different phases of an inspection if there is no 
resulting interference with the conduct of the inspection. However, only 
one workers' representative at a time may accompany the inspectors.
    (f) With the approval of the licensee and the workers' 
representative an individual who is not routinely engaged in licensed 
activities under control of the license, for example, a consultant to 
the licensee or to the workers' representative, shall be afforded the 
opportunity to accompany Commission inspectors during the inspection of 
physical working conditions.
    (g) Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, Commission 
inspectors are authorized to refuse to permit accompaniment by any 
individual who deliberately interferes with a fair and orderly 
inspection. With regard to areas containing information classified by an 
agency of the U.S. Government in the interest of national security, an 
individual who accompanies an inspector may have access to such 
information only if authorized to do so. With regard to any area 
containing proprietary information, the workers' representative for that 
area shall be an individual previously authorized by the licensee to 
enter that area.